Outed by The Globe tabloid in 1996 with photographs of him making out with another man (presumably sold to the magazine by that other man). Chad kept silent about the incident, and turned down an offer from his studio to "get" him a girlfriend. In 2002 he appeared on the cover of The Advocate.

[1] Bruce Vilanch, "Chad Allen: His Own Story", The Advocate, 9 October 2001. "I was 21 years old when a guy that I was seeing sold photos of us kissing in a swimming pool to a magazine, a tabloid. I was 21 and working on a family-oriented TV series. All of a sudden I get this phone call from a publicist saying the Globe is doing this thing and running this picture, and they’re gonna claim I was with a prostitute and all these things that weren’t true. So I was scared. Just scared."